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Passare il limite: funzioni espressive e implicazioni filosofiche della metalessi
Full text linkDal punto di vista narratologico, la metalessi si definisce come una trasgressione della gerarchia narrativa in cui un elemento appartenente a un livello superiore si trova ad agire a uno inferiore e viceversa. Il presente saggio offre un’analisi delle funzioni espressive e delle implicazioni filosofiche della metalessi. Viene principalmente sottolineata la sua capacità di illustrare – attraverso i mezzi propri della letteratura – problematiche del pensiero di interesse capitale. Il paradossale attraversamento di livelli che la caratterizza compare infatti in attività intellettuali situate in territori abbastanza distanti da quello della creazione artistico-letteraria – come logica, metafisica, filosofia del linguaggio e psicoanalisi. Nostro obiettivo è dimostrare che le potenzialità espressive della metalessi vanno ben oltre la rappresentazione del problematico rapporto tra fatto e finzione in quanto la struttura metalettica riproduce narrativamente una serie di operazioni mentali compiute dal pensiero umano ogni volta che va alla ricerca dei propri limiti.From a narratological point of view, metalepsis is defined as a transgression of the narrative hierarchy in which an entity belonging to a higher level finds itself acting at a lower level, and vice versa. This paper offers an analysis of metalepsis’s expressive functions and philosophical implications. It is primarily highlighted its power to illustrate – using the specific expressive means of literature – some of the deepest problems of thought. Indeed, the paradoxical level-crossing that characterizes metalepsis turns up in intellectual activities apparently located quite far from the territory of artistic and literary creation – such as logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language and psychoanalysis. Our goal is to demonstrate that metalepsis’s expressive potential goes far beyond the representation of the problematic relationship between fact and fiction, as the metaleptic structure narratively reproduces a series of mental operations performed by the thought every time it is looking for its own limits
Il paratesto del romanzo web in Cina: il caso Punto di partenza
Full text linkIn the People\u27s Republic of China, during the last twenty years, online literature has emerged as a form of popular literature and long novels published and daily updated by users are the main form of fiction circulating on online platforms. Using concepts developed by Gérard Genette, this article analyzes the paratext of some web novels published on Starting Point and especially the contents within the section "related to the text," a space preceding the novel in which writers publish different kinds of news and information. The analysis of these contents highlighted some practices and strategies within the relationship between the subjects involved in this form of literature and confirmed the centrality of readers and the virtual community.Negli ultimi vent’anni, la letteratura web si è affermata nella Repubblica popolare cinese come forma di letteratura popolare e i lunghi romanzi pubblicati e aggiornati quotidianamente dagli utenti rappresentano la principale forma di narrativa diffusa sulle piattaforme online. Servendosi degli strumenti offerti da Gérard Genette, il contributo analizza il paratesto di romanzi web pubblicati su Punto di partenza e, in particolar modo, i contenuti della sezione “in aggiunta al testo”, uno spazio che precede il romanzo dove lo scrittore pubblica notizie e informazioni di varia natura. L’analisi di tali contenuti ha permesso di mettere in luce pratiche e strategie adottate dalle figure coinvolte, confermando la centralità della comunità virtuale nei processi di produzione e fruizione di tale letteratura
Tales on the Origin of Life in Primo Levi’s Works
Full text linkThis article investigates Primo Levi’s representations of the origin of life, particularly considering his essays and science-fiction short stories. After introducing the two main sources of inspiration that Levi refers to when writing narratives on this subject, classical and biblical mythologies and Darwinian evolutionary theory, the article offers a close reading of two short stories, “I sintetici” and “Disfilassi”, that depict a moment of ‘second genesis’ set in the near future. This process is seen by Levi from an ecological perspective in relation to the environmental risks that human technology and overpopulation pose to our planet. Following the analysis of the writer’s essays about recent chemical and biological theories on how life originated on Earth, the last paragraph focuses on the tangencies between Levi’s investigation of the origin of life and his reflections on the source of literary creativity, summed up by the short story “Carbonio”.This article investigates Primo Levi’s representations of the origin of life, particularly considering his essays and science-fiction short stories. After introducing the two main sources of inspiration that Levi refers to when writing narratives on this subject, classical and biblical mythologies and Darwinian evolutionary theory, the article offers a close reading of two short stories, “I sintetici” and “Disfilassi”, that depict a moment of ‘second genesis’ set in the near future. This process is seen by Levi from an ecological perspective in relation to the environmental risks that human technology and overpopulation pose to our planet. Following the analysis of the writer’s essays about recent chemical and biological theories on how life originated on Earth, the last paragraph focuses on the tangencies between Levi’s investigation of the origin of life and his reflections on the source of literary creativity, summed up by the short story “Carbonio”
From infinitely large to infinitely small: Historical reconstruction, non-fiction instance and urban stratigraphy in the work of Francesco Pecoraro
No full textIl presente saggio si propone di analizzare stilisticamente e tematicamente le opere di Francesco Pecoraro, prestando particolare attenzione ai romanzi La vita in tempo di pace e Lo stradone. Mediante una close reading comparativa volta a porre in dialogo reciproco i due romanzi e i racconti raccolti nel volume Camere e stanze, l’obiettivo principale è quello, da un lato, di indagare i processi formali e compositivi mediante cui Pecoraro rielabora il genere del romanzo-saggio e lo declina secondo peculiari risoluzioni inventive; dall’altro, di illuminare le risorse espressive e le operazioni narrative attraverso cui la soggettività dei suoi personaggi entra in tensione dialettica con la realtà e lo spazio urbano circostanti.The present essay aims to analyze stylistically and thematically the works of Francesco Pecoraro, paying particular attention to the novels La vita in tempo di pace and Lo stradone. Through a comparative close reading aimed at placing in mutual dialogue the two novels and the short stories collected in the volume Camere e stanze, the main objective is to investigate, on the one hand, the formal and compositional processes through which Pecoraro reworks the genre of the novel-essay and declines it according to peculiar inventive resolutions; on the other, to illuminate the expressive resources and narrative operations through which the subjectivity of his characters enters into dialectical tension with the surrounding reality and urban space
The Neural Secrets of Narration
Full text linkIl Default Mode Network (DMN) è il circuito delle regioni cerebrali deputate al racconto attivo o passivo e alla condivisione delle esperienze. Consentendoci di simulare esperienze e usare i ricordi per costruire storie ipotetiche su come le persone potrebbero comportarsi, è un’abilità fondamentale ai fini della costruzione di un aggregato sociale in quanto permette di prefigurare le conseguenze delle nostre azioni e di riflettere sulle intenzioni degli altri, simulando le loro esperienze per anticiparne il comportamento. Elaboriamo finzioni la cui accuratezza è misura delle nostre competenze sociali, in quanto più l’immaginazione si approssima alla realtà sociale, meglio negoziamo i nostri mondi sociali. In ogni caso, il responsabile di tali operazioni è il DMN, che include le strutture frontali e parietali del cervello lungo la linea mediana, i lobi temporali laterali e mediali e la corteccia parietale laterale. Questo contributo analizza il DMN in tutti i suoi aspetti, sia nella costruzione degli intrecci narrativi che nell’allestimento di scenari emozionali credibili e immersivi, che hanno esiti addirittura endocrini (ossitocina e cortisolo).The Default Mode Network (DMN) is a network of brain regions responsible for active or passive narration and the sharing of experiences. The ability to simulate experiences and use memories to construct hypothetical tales about how people might behave is a fundamental skill in building a social aggregate as it allows us to foreshadow the consequences of our actions and reflect on the intentions of others, simulating their experiences to anticipate their behavior. We can process imaginary situations whose accuracy is a measure of our social skills since the closer the imagination approaches social reality, the better we negotiate our social worlds. The DMN is responsible for these activities that encompass the frontal and parietal structures of the brain along the midline, the lateral and medial temporal lobes, and the lateral parietal cortex. This work reviews the DMN in all its aspects, both in the construction of narrative plots and in the preparation of believable and immersive emotional scenarios, including endocrine outcomes (oxytocin and cortisol)
Introduzione
Full text linkIntroduction to Enthymema\u27s special issue Literature and the Web. Alliances, Oppositionalities, StrategiesIntroduction to Enthymema\u27s special issue Literature and the Web. Alliances, Oppositionalities, StrategiesIntroduction to Enthymema\u27s special issue Literature and the Web. Alliances, Oppositionalities, StrategiesIntroduzione al numero monografico di Enthymema su La letteratura e la rete. Alleanze, antagonismi, strategie.
.Introduction to Enthymema\u27s special issue Literature and the Web. Alliances, Oppositionalities, Strategies
U.S. Fiction in the Age of Authenticity: Earnestness and Digital Epitexts in Leilani’s Luster
Full text linkThis essay aims to explore the interrelation of the widespread use of digital epitextual material and the common practice, in post-postmodern U.S. fiction, to employ characters and character-narrators that share some biographical details with their authors. Specifically, this essay attends to narrative communication when an autobiographical connection between authors and characters is established not textually, but paratextually, through digital epitexts to be found, for instance, on authors’ social media profiles. Through the analysis of Raven Leilani’s Luster (2020), I will show how digital epitexts acquire a central role for contemporary narrative dynamics: it is through them that many novels realize the author-character connection providing fiction with a layer of alleged authenticity meant to reinforce the post-postmodern tendency to earnestly engage with ethical and political issues.This essay aims to explore the interrelation of the widespread use of digital epitextual material and the common practice, in post-postmodern U.S. fiction, to employ characters and character-narrators that share some biographical details with their authors. Specifically, this essay attends to narrative communication when an autobiographical connection between authors and characters is established not textually, but paratextually, through digital epitexts to be found, for instance, on authors’ social media profiles. Through the analysis of Raven Leilani’s Luster (2020), I will show how digital epitexts acquire a central role for contemporary narrative dynamics: it is through them that many novels realize the author-character connection providing fiction with a layer of alleged authenticity meant to reinforce the post-postmodern tendency to earnestly engage with ethical and political issues
Il testo nel fuori-testo. Su Eccessi d’autore di Filippo Pennacchio
Full text linkThis contribution reviews Eccessi d’autore. Retoriche della voce nel romanzo italiano di oggi (Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2020), then dialogues with it by expanding the discourse to some issues which the book hint at, or implies.Il contributo recensisce Eccessi d’autore. Retoriche della voce nel romanzo italiano di oggi (Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2020) e vi entra in dialogo provando ad allargare lo sguardo ai problemi cui il volume accenna o che sottende
Women Translating Women: Resisting the Male Intellectual Canon in Eliza Hayley’s Essays on Friendship and Old-Age, by the Marchioness de Lambert (1780)
Full text linkIn 1780 the English translator and essayist Eliza Ball Hayley (b.1750-1797) published Essays on Friendship and Old-Age, by the Marchioness de Lambert. The text was a translation of two of the many philosophical treatises written by the French philosopher Anne-Thérèse de Lambert (1647-1733). Addressing the chronological, linguistic, and geographical distance between the authors and their philosophical thought, this article examines the motivations behind Hayley’s translation, regarding them as an act of resistance to the predominant contemporary male intellectual discourse, dismissive of de Lambert’s influence. Furthermore, it suggests that through the act of translating, Hayley is in fact recovering de Lambert and her (gendered) contribution to the history of ideas, while in parallel she is asserting her own place within this intellectual continuum by benefiting from de Lambert’s legacy, and thus contributing to, and sustaining, a female genealogy of thought.In 1780 the English translator and essayist Eliza Ball Hayley (b.1750-1797) published Essays on Friendship and Old-Age, by the Marchioness de Lambert. The text was a translation of two of the many philosophical treatises written by the French philosopher Anne-Thérèse de Lambert (1647-1733). Addressing the chronological, linguistic, and geographical distance between the two authors and their philosophical thought, this article examines the motivations behind Hayley’s translation, regarding them as an act of resistance to the predominant contemporary male intellectual discourse, dismissive of de Lambert’s influence. Furthermore, it suggests that, through the act of translating, Hayley is in fact recovering de Lambert and her (gendered) contribution to the history of ideas, while in parallel she is asserting her own place within this intellectual continuum by benefiting from de Lambert’s legacy, and thus contributing to, and sustaining, a female genealogy of thought. In 1780 the English translator and essayist Eliza Ball Hayley (b.1750-1797) published Essays on Friendship and Old-Age, by the Marchioness de Lambert. The text was a translation of two of the many philosophical treatises written by the French philosopher Anne-Thérèse de Lambert (1647-1733). Addressing the chronological, linguistic, and geographical distance between the two authors and their philosophical thought, this article examines the motivations behind Hayley’s translation, regarding them as an act of resistance to the predominant contemporary male intellectual discourse, dismissive of de Lambert’s influence. Furthermore, it suggests that, through the act of translating, Hayley is in fact recovering de Lambert and her (gendered) contribution to the history of ideas, while in parallel she is asserting her own place within this intellectual continuum by benefiting from de Lambert’s legacy, and thus contributing to, and sustaining, a female genealogy of thought. In 1780 the English translator and essayist Eliza Ball Hayley (b.1750-1797) published Essays on Friendship and Old-Age, by the Marchioness de Lambert. The text was a translation of two of the many philosophical treatises written by the French philosopher Anne-Thérèse de Lambert (1647-1733). Addressing the chronological, linguistic, and geographical distance between the two authors and their philosophical thought, this article examines the motivations behind Hayley’s translation, regarding them as an act of resistance to the predominant contemporary male intellectual discourse, dismissive of de Lambert’s influence. Furthermore, it suggests that, through the act of translating, Hayley is in fact recovering de Lambert and her (gendered) contribution to the history of ideas, while in parallel she is asserting her own place within this intellectual continuum by benefiting from de Lambert’s legacy, and thus contributing to, and sustaining, a female genealogy of thought. In 1780 the English translator and essayist Eliza Ball Hayley (b.1750-1797) published Essays on Friendship and Old-Age, by the Marchioness de Lambert. The text was a translation of two of the many philosophical treatises written by the French philosopher Anne-Thérèse de Lambert (1647-1733). Addressing the chronological, linguistic, and geographical distance between the two authors and their philosophical thought, this article examines the motivations behind Hayley’s translation, regarding them as an act of resistance to the predominant contemporary male intellectual discourse, dismissive of de Lambert’s influence. Furthermore, it suggests that, through the act of translating, Hayley is in fact recovering de Lambert and her (gendered) contribution to the history of ideas, while in parallel she is asserting her own place within this intellectual continuum by benefiting from de Lambert’s legacy, and thus contributing to, and sustaining, a female genealogy of thought.
Il fumetto grassroots: gli antipodi convergenti di Dr. Pira e Sio
Full text linkI processi di trasformazione che hanno interessato il campo fumettistico al crocevia del secolo si allacciano strettamente alla digitalizzazione e all’integrazione del sistema mediale. Accanto all’affermazione del graphic novel, che permette al fumetto di convergere verso archi narrativi organici di matrice romanzesca, si delineano tendenze al riscatto dei generi brevi del fumetto classico: la striscia umoristica, la vignetta fulminante, la tavola autoconclusiva. L’accrescimento vertiginoso dei flussi sviluppati dal web favorisce la trasposizione, il ricircolo, la stratificazione di simili schegge fumettistiche, tra comunicazione analogica e comunicazione digitale. Si tratta di proposte che insorgono dal basso, da protagonisti della compartecipazione creativa socialmediale o da rinnovatori della cultura underground. L’intreccio fra interazione estetica istituzionale e medialità autogestita, pur vincolato all’oligopolio delle piattaforme, dischiude originali opportunità di differenziazione e arricchimento dell’esperienza fumettistica.The transformation processes that have affected the comics field between the 20th and 21st centuries are strictly linked with the digitization and integration of the media system. Alongside the affirmation of the graphic novel, which allows the comics to converge towards organic narrative arcs assumed from the literary novel, tendencies to boost the short genres of classic comics are outlined: the humorous strip, the fulminating cartoon, the self-contained comic board. The dizzying increase in the flows developed by the web favours the transposition, recirculation, stratification of such comics splinters, between analogue communication and digital communication. These are proposals that arise from the grassroots, from protagonists of social media creative participation or from renovators of underground culture. The interweaving of institutional aesthetic interaction and self-managed mediacy, while bound to the oligopoly of the platforms, opens up original opportunities for differentiation and enrichment of the comics experience